National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold WarCraig Eisendrath Temple University Press, 28 nov. 2000 - 240 sidor A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue. The Cold War has been over for ten years. No country threatens this nation's existence. Yet we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage. In National Insecurity ten prominent experts describe, from an insider perspective, what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it. Drawing on their experience in government administration, research, and the foreign service, they propose a radical rethinking of the United States' intelligence needs in the post-Cold War world. In addition, they offer a coherent and unified plan for reform that can simultaneously protect U. S. security and uphold the values of our democratic system. As we now know, even during the Cold War, when intelligence was seen as a matter of life and death, our system served us badly. It provided unreliable information, which led to a grossly inflated military budget, as it wreaked havoc around the world, supporting corrupt regimes, promoting the drug trade, and repeatedly violating foreign and domestic laws. Protected by a shroud of secrecy, it paid no price for its mistakes. Instead it grew larger and more insulated every year. Taking into consideration our strategic interests abroad as well as the price of covert operations in dollars, in reliability, and in good will, every American taxpayer can be informed by and will want to read this book. National Insecurity is essential for readers interested in contemporary political issues, international relations, U.S. history, public policy issues, foreign policy, intelligence reform, and political science. |
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... protected by a shroud of secrecy , the intelligence establishment paid no price for its mistakes ; year by year , it grew larger and more insulated from criticism . What Allen Dulles , former director of the CIA , once called " the ...
... protected by a shroud of secrecy , the intelligence establishment paid no price for its mistakes ; year by year , it grew larger and more insulated from criticism . What Allen Dulles , former director of the CIA , once called " the ...
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... protection of sources and methods , " which deny citizens access to records and deny policymakers and the public access to our history . In Chapter 7 , " Mission Myopia : Narcotics as Fallout From the CIA's Covert Wars , " Alfred W ...
... protection of sources and methods , " which deny citizens access to records and deny policymakers and the public access to our history . In Chapter 7 , " Mission Myopia : Narcotics as Fallout From the CIA's Covert Wars , " Alfred W ...
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... protection , it may be cold comfort that this is one area in which all the great powers have an extremely large stake in coop- erating fully , but it is still true . In the meantime , it might be helpful for the great powers to convene ...
... protection , it may be cold comfort that this is one area in which all the great powers have an extremely large stake in coop- erating fully , but it is still true . In the meantime , it might be helpful for the great powers to convene ...
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... protecting our own codes . Aerial and Satellite Intelligence During the Cold War , American planes loaded with electronic devices probed the perimeters of the Soviet Union to learn everything possible about Soviet radar . Various ...
... protecting our own codes . Aerial and Satellite Intelligence During the Cold War , American planes loaded with electronic devices probed the perimeters of the Soviet Union to learn everything possible about Soviet radar . Various ...
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... protect Chile's democracy and was opposed to the idea of a military coup , which Kissinger favored . But Kissinger had no qualms about interfer- ing with the democratic electoral process . The CIA provided money and machine guns to ...
... protect Chile's democracy and was opposed to the idea of a military coup , which Kissinger favored . But Kissinger had no qualms about interfer- ing with the democratic electoral process . The CIA provided money and machine guns to ...
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3 Too Many Spies Too Little Intelligence | 45 |
4 CIAForeign Service Relations | 61 |
The Blowback Problem | 76 |
US National Security and the New Openness Movement | 92 |
Narcotics as Fallout From the CIAs Covert Wars | 118 |
Priorities Managerial Changes and Funding | 172 |
10 Whos Watching the Store? ExecutiveBranch and Congressional Surveillance | 190 |
Conclusions | 212 |
Selected Bibliography | 223 |
About The Center for International Policy | 227 |
About the Contributors | 231 |
Index | 233 |
The NSA the NRO and NIMA | 149 |
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